Marsh-shoe.



Pavtented Oct. I, |90l` A. nnoulLLAnn. MARSH SHOE.

(Application led Jan. 9, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEE-ICE.

ALBERT DROUILLARD, OF WINDSOR, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANDREW ANDERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

MARSH-SHOE. y.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 683,595, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed January 9, 1901. Serial No. 42,587. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may conce-rn: H, which may be more or less prolonged up- Be it known that I, ALBERT DROUILLARD, wardly. Ordinarily I make it with a rigid a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, relower portion and a flexible upper extension siding at Vindsor, in the county of Essex formed by securing a piece of rubber hose to 55 and Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of the rigid lower portion, as shown. This flexi- Oanada,haveinvented certain new and useful ble portion should reach up to the hip and is Improvements in Marsh-Shoes, of which the to be secured to the leg, for which purposea following is a specification, reference being strap I may be secured to thehose. In prachad therein to the accompanying drawings. tice a pair ot' these disks are neither heavy 6o lo This invention relates to that class of denor cumbersome to carry on a hunting trip vices designed to be fastened to the sole of and can be quickly adjusted to the foot or shoes to prevent sinking into soft ground taken off, as circumstances may require, and when walking over it. equipped with them the hunter can readily The object of my invention is to produce a walk over soft ground without sinkingin, and 65 device of this character specially adapted to grasses and reeds will be readily bent aside the use of hunters in the pursuit of game over or trodden down under it without any liabilswampy or marshy ground; and my improveity to catch or become entangled therewith. ment consists in certain novel features of The rim projecting on the under side preconstruction hereinafter more fully explained vents slipping in anydirection, as otherwise 7o 2o whereby the device is better suited to aceomwalking over oozy ground would be quite plish the object desired, all as more fully difficult. Besides therim givesaiirm support, hereinafter described, and shown in the acwhile the body of the disk acts to a certain companying drawings, in which` extent like a iiexible diaphragm, and its ac- Figure 1 is a perspective of my device. tion in lifting up the heel is like that of a dia- 75 Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is phragm-pump by sucking air in through the a vertical central section on line :c m, Fig. l. air-pipe and conducting it beneath the disk A is a disk of sheet metal formed with a to permit its ready withdrawal. Nor does it strong rigid rim B, projecting on the under make any difference if the hunter accidentside ofthe disk. As shown,the rim is formed ally or intentionally steps into deep miry 8o 3o by means of a wire hoop C, secured in the ground up to his knees the air will still be edge of the disk. This disk is imperforate drawn in in struggling to get out, and thus and of a larger diameter than the length of make extrication an easy matter, whereas the foot and is provided with suitable means without this assistance he would become hopefor securing it detachably to the sole of the lessly mired.- By making the pipe I-I flexible 85 boot similar to the manner of securing skates. or partly 4flexible it will give free movement As these means should permit the Wearing in walking or in sitting down, and by making of rubberboots,I preferably use leather straps it detachable from the rigid lower portion it in the manner shown, one strap D being procan be left off when the nature of the ground vided to pass over the toe of the boot and the does not call for it. 9o 4o other strap E to pass over the instep, the That I claim as my invention isstrap D being secured by passing it directly l. In a device of the character described, through apertures a in the disk andthe other the combination of the flexible disk formed strap E being secured by means of a separate with a rigid rim projecting downwardly bestrap G, which passes through apertures bin low the under surface of the disk, means for 95 the disk and terminates in rings c. A heelsecuring the disk to the sole of the boot or strap F is also secured to these rings. In this shoe and an airpipe extending upwardly manner secure and adjustable means are proabove the disk and communicating with the vided to fasten a disk of this kind to the sole under side of the disk at or near the heel of each boot similar to the way skates are thereof. Ico 5o fastened on. Directly in rear of the heel ot' 2. In a device of the character described, the boot the disk is provided with an air-pipe the combination of the disk A formed of sheet metal and having a downwardly-projecting In testimony whereof I affix my signature rigid outer rim B, straps secured in apex-tures in presence of two witnesses. of the disk and forming the means for adjnstably securing the same to the sole of the ALBERT DROUILLARD' 5 boot or shoe, and the air-pipe H extending vWitnessesz upwardly and forming lche means for attach- OTTO F. BARTHEL, ing,r a Hexible rubber hose thereto. JOSEPH A. NOELKE. 

